89 research outputs found
A woman in the man’s culture of engineering education
The study is aimed at identifying barriers to the research career of women in the academic environment of a technical university. The authors present the results of their study of the women’s status in the academic community. The study is based on a quantitative (questionnaire survey) and qualitative (biographical interviews) analysis of the opinions of students and teachers of STEM disciplines of a technical university about the features and problems of women’s professional careers. It is established that women of the same university evaluate the presence and degree of influence of barriers to the research careers differently. In some cases, women assessing their professional status note that they do not feel professional discrimination on the basis of gender. In general, the analysis revealed that women who received a STEM education use a strategy of avoiding a research career and choosing alternative career options: either outside the academic environment, or by transitioning to teaching as a way to circumvent gender barriers in grant and publication activities. © 2019 Moscow Polytechnic University. All rights reserved.Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBRRussian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR: 19-011-00252in the framework of the project «Comparative analysis of social effects and the impact of institutional conditions on the professional training of engineering specialists», implemented with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research – RFBR (grant № 19-011-00252)
Dynamics of Vortex Pair in Radial Flow
The problem of vortex pair motion in two-dimensional plane radial flow is
solved. Under certain conditions for flow parameters, the vortex pair can
reverse its motion within a bounded region. The vortex-pair translational
velocity decreases or increases after passing through the source/sink region,
depending on whether the flow is diverging or converging, respectively. The
rotational motion of two corotating vortexes in a quiescent environment
transforms into motion along a logarithmic spiral in the presence of radial
flow. The problem may have applications in astrophysics and geophysics.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
KiDS0239-3211: A new gravitational quadruple lens candidate
We report the discovery of a candidate to quadrupole gravitationally lensed
system KiDS0239-3211 based on the public data release 3 of the KiDS survey and
machine learning techniques
A Dipole Vortex Model of Obscuring Tori in Active Galaxy Nuclei
The torus concept as an essential structural component of active galactic
nuclei (AGN) is generally accepted. Here, the situation is discussed when the
torus "twisting" by the radiation or wind transforms it into a dipole toroidal
vortex which in turn can be a source of matter replenishing the accretion disk.
Thus emerging instability which can be responsible for quasar radiation flares
accompanied by matter outbursts is also discussed. The "Matreshka" scheme for
an obscuring vortex torus structure capable of explaining the AGN variability
and evolution is proposed. The model parameters estimated numerically for the
luminosity close to the Eddington limit agree well with the observations.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, version of this paper is published in Astronomy
Report
Gravitational potential of a homogeneous circular torus: new approach
The integral expression for gravitational potential of a homogeneous circular
torus composed of infinitely thin rings is obtained. Approximate expressions
for torus potential in the outer and inner regions are found. In the outer
region a torus potential is shown to be approximately equal to that of an
infinitely thin ring of the same mass; it is valid up to the surface of the
torus. It is shown in a first approximation, that the inner potential of the
torus (inside a torus body) is a quadratic function of coordinates. The method
of sewing together the inner and outer potentials is proposed. This method
provided a continuous approximate solution for the potential and its
derivatives, working throughout the region.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; some misprints in formulae were
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A Woman in the Man’s Culture of Engineering Education
The study is aimed at identifying barriers to the research career of women in the academic environment of a technical university. The authors present the results of their study of the women’s status in the academic community. The study is based on a quantitative (questionnaire survey) and qualitative (biographical interviews) analysis of the opinions of students and teachers of STEM disciplines of a technical university about the features and problems of women’s professional careers. It is established that women of the same university evaluate the presence and degree of influence of barriers to the research careers differently. In some cases, women assessing their professional status note that they do not feel professional discrimination on the basis of gender. In general, the analysis revealed that women who received a STEM education use a strategy of avoiding a research career and choosing alternative career options: either outside the academic environment, or by transitioning to teaching as a way to circumvent gender barriers in grant and publication activities
KiDS-SQuaD: The KiDS Strongly lensed Quasar Detection project
New methods have been recently developed to search for strong gravitational
lenses, in particular lensed quasars, in wide-field imaging surveys. Here, we
compare the performance of three different, morphology- and photometry- based
methods to find lens candidates over the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) DR3
footprint (440 deg). The three methods are: i) a multiplet detection in
KiDS-DR3 and/or Gaia-DR1, ii) direct modeling of KiDS cutouts and iii)
positional offsets between different surveys (KiDS-vs-Gaia, Gaia-vs-2MASS),
with purpose-built astrometric recalibrations. The first benchmark for the
methods has been set by the recovery of known lenses. We are able to recover
seven out of ten known lenses and pairs of quasars observed in the KiDS DR3
footprint, or eight out of ten with improved selection criteria and looser
colour pre-selection. This success rate reflects the combination of all methods
together, which, taken individually, performed significantly worse (four lenses
each). One movelty of our analysis is that the comparison of the performances
of the different methods has revealed the pros and cons of the approaches and,
most of all, the complementarities. We finally provide a list of high-grade
candidates found by one or more methods, awaiting spectroscopic follow-up for
confirmation. Of these, KiDS 1042+0023 is to our knowledge the first confirmed
lensed quasar from KiDS, exhibiting two quasar spectra at the same source
redshift at either sides of a red galaxy, with uniform flux-ratio
over the wavelength range
Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRA
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